Strain's intense investigation into Cube's good day mostly focused on the track's lyrics: he knew, for example, that the good day had to come between August 6th, 1988 (the first airdate of Yo! MTV Raps, which Cube watches with Short Dog) and February 23, 1993, when the song was released. He further narrowed it down by finding days when the Lakers beat the Super Sonics, further filtered by "clear days with no smog" and the time period in which beepers were available to the public.